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This is an urgent need in view of the empty abstraction on which most judgements are based at present. An example of the latter is *Der Geistgehalt dieses Krieges* (The Spiritual Import of this War) by George Simmel. It is an ingenious presentation and a prime example of ideas from which all content has been extracted. To read it is comparable to eating an orange from which all juice has been squeezed out. Yet the book was written by a distinguished philosopher and innovator of modern views. At the Berlin university he had a large following; the fact that he never had a thought worthy of the name did nothing to diminish his fame.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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